Author
Book
Place
Literature voc
Surprise
100

Who wrote the adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

100

Funny book by Roald Dahl about a young clever girl

Matilda

100

Where does Shakespeare come from?

Stratford Upon Avon

100

What is a paragraph in a poem called?

a stanza

100

Who wrote 1984

George ORWELL

200

She wrote Villette and lived in Bradford.

Charlotte Bronte

200

A book about a mysterious beast in the moor, the investigation is run by Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

200

In what country does Animal Farm take place?

England

200

What is called the same "sound" ending in a poem?

a rhyme

200

Who is the Queen of Crime?

Agatha Christie

300

He wrote Vincent

Edgar Allan Poe

300

This is the story of ten people invited by a mysterious host on an island off the Devon coast.

"And Then There Were None" by Agatha CHRISTIE

300

Where does Bertha MASON come from?

From the Carribeans.

300

What is the name of a word or a group of words which reads the same backwards

a palindrome

300

What nationality was Robert Lewis STEVENSON

He was Scottish!

400

She wrote Jamaica Inn

Daphné DU MAURIER

400

This is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser.

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles DICKENS

400

Where does the story of The Jungle Book by Rudyard KIPLING take place?

in India

400

What is the repetition of a consonant sound?

an alliteration

400

How did Sylvia Plath die?

She commited suicide: she died of carbon monoxide poisoning with her head in the oven.

500

Who wrote Gone with the wind

Margaret MITCHELL

500

What is Harper LEE's famous book?

To kill a mockingbird

500

Where was Edgar Allan Poe born? (city + state)

Boston, Massachussets

500

What literary devices are: alone together / a close distance/ awfully good

an oxymoron

500

What was Lewis Carols' first job?

He was a math teacher.